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Lord Byron Quotes - Page 22

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Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years

Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.

Passion, Years, Leader

My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.

Power, Comfort, Teeth

Letter to Thomas Moore, April 9, 1814.

In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.

Life, Years, Ideas

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.502, Delphi Classics

He had kept The whiteness of his soul, and thus men o'er him wept.

Men, Soul, Whiteness

Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.142

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

Wisdom, Intelligence, Sage

Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

Sports, Journey, Demand

Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth; The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth: Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam, Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.

Nature, Flower, Health

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, . . . that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us.

War, Reading, Men

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2656, Delphi Classics

Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall endure. Away, away, without a wing, O'er all, through all, its thought shall fly; A nameless and eternal thing, Forgetting what it was to die.

Hate, Years, Wings

George Gordon Byron, “When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay”

Oh, Mirth and Innocence! Oh, Milk and Water! Ye happy mixture of more happy days!

Happiness, Water, Mixtures

Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.100, Routledge

It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.

Real, Greek, Doubt

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Death, Desire, Certain

Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.362, Routledge

'Twas strange that one so young should thus concern His brain about the action of the sky; If you think 'twas philosophy that this did, I can't help thinking puberty assisted.

Philosophy, Thinking, Sky

'Don Juan' (1819-24) canto 1, st. 93

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

Funny, Military, Humorous

The basis of your religion is injustice. The Son of God the pure, the immaculate, the innocent, is sacrificed for the guilty. This proves his heroism, but no more does away with man's sin than a school boy's volunteering to be flogged for another would exculpate a dunce from negligence.

School, Son, Boys

He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

Art, Riding, Fencing

Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.144, Routledge

But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood of all thy race. There from thy daughter, sister, wife, At midnight drain the stream of life, Yet loathe the banquet which perforce Must feed thy livid living corse. Thy victims ere they yet expire Shall know the demon for their sire, As cursing thee, thou cursing them, Thy flowers are withered on the stem.

Daughter, Flower, Blood

Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.768, Delphi Classics

The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath been to me a more familiar face Than that of man, and in her starry shade Of dim and solitary loveliness I learned the language of another world.

Beautiful, Stars, Moon

'Manfred' (1817) act 3, sc. 4, l. 2

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as a poet, I have the right and liberty to draw.

Character, People, Liberty

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

Peace, Solitude, Mark

George Gordon Byron, “The Bride Of Abydos”

And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.

Angel, Nymphs, Ballet

Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

Wise, Art, Moving

Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.84

If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

Fall, Tyrants, Gentleman

Lord Byron (1990). “The Sayings of Lord Byron”, p.26, Gerald Duckworth & Co

I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.

Dream, Grief, Believe

LORD BYRON. (1819). “CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE”, p.62

Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolish'd the right arm Of his own country.

Country, Laughing, Spain

"Don Juan".

Born: January 22, 1788 - April 19, 1824
Occupation: Baron Byron

Quotes: 589

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